Love Is an Ex-Country: A Memoir

An “exuberant, defiant and introspective” memoir of a cross-country road trip that explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America—from the award-winning author of Him, Me, Muhammad Ali (The New York Times Book Review).

Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat femme. Randa Jarrar is all of these things.

Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called “politically incorrect” (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times). As an American raised for a time in Egypt,...